For all the many times we have written about the interconnectedness of operas/musicals and the movie world and documented all the good news of the synergetic relationship the two spheres enjoy, logic dictates that there will also be bad days and sad days. Accordingly, it is with surprise and sadness that we must convey the news that not one by two film-related operas hang in the balance as we speak. "And what is the cruel perpetrator of this injustice?," I hear you cry. "The skyrocketing gas prices? The economic crisis? The axis of evil?" Well, no, it's a little more straightforward than that: the simple truth is that Gerard Mortier has left his post as general manager and artistic director of New York's City Opera (part of the Lincoln Center), a move that places a adaptation of Brokeback Mountain and a Philip Glass-penned work about Walt Disney – two operas commissioned by Mortier – somewhat in limbo, as Variety reports. Apparently Mortier left due to budgetary restrictions which did not allow him to pursue sufficiently adventurous projects, so it is possible that he may bring these two operas with him to whichever artistic institution next employs him.